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Tuesday, January 26
Fish Tank
Hope Sinks
Trailers & Mo | Official Website
It's not often that a movie comes along that wows the pants off of us, and Andrea Arnold's second feature, Fish Tank, not only did juss that, but has continued to do so, even mo so, days after our initial, and what will probably be multiple viewings of this brilliant brilliant film (guess we gotta see her first flick, Red Road, STAT). Arnold's hand-held, freewheeling look at a raw nerved teen stuck in nowheresville England, looking for any kind of connection, is a pure revelation, and most of its success can be credited to the novice actress at the center of it all, Katie Jarvis
A star has instantly been born, kinda like with Carey Mulligan in the similarly themed An Education, cept Mulls is a trained actor and been rising thru the ranks for years. As for the untrained Jarvis, she was famously discovered by Tank's casting agent when she overheard yelling at her boyfriend on a train platform. The rest is not herstory, as it will be interesting to see where this diamond in the rough goes from here. Even if she doesn't reach any higher than this (we're hoping that that's not the case), this would still be considered quite the one-hit wonder
Jarvis mind-blowingly plays the temper-a-mental Mia, a 15 year old struggling to fit in at home and in the gruff world outside of it. Her whorish mother (Kierston Wareing) and annoying sister (Rebecca Griffiths) are no help, but when a man (Michael Fassbender, a fass rising star in his own right) enters the picture and her mum's vag, everything changes, and not necessarily for the better. He seems to be the only one to get a positive rise out of Mia, and the more he sticks around, the mo their own relationship deepens, pushing things toward a messy-ickyville territory, and then things go in a whole different direction and then it all ends with Mia graduating with her own 'an education'. You knows we love Mulligan, but gotta say that Jarvis is more deserving of being the prized pupil and head of the class, even if that class is a lower one, one that's like school on Saturday, no class at all
Tank Girl: JARVIS! JARVIS!!!! we hearts you like mad, even if yer teeths be crooked, and yous may not be as cutie pie mcgeed as Mulligan (here's a pic of the two together!), but who cares cause Sean Connery totes wanted to touch yer fingers and he's lord, and Marcus Brody once got lost in his own museum and then ZARDOZ!!
fo further reading, further read this int with KJ
Verdictgo: Breast In Show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tank is currently bubbling up in limited release
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
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